Comments - The Bible & Science - Think Atheist2015-08-02T21:02:19Zhttp://www.thinkatheist.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1982180%3ABlogPost%3A1036069&xn_auth=noCurious..
A naive evaluation…tag:www.thinkatheist.com,2012-01-26:1982180:Comment:10362172012-01-26T22:18:15.691ZAlbert Bakkerhttp://www.thinkatheist.com/profile/AlbertBakker
<p>Curious..</p>
<p>A naive evaluation of the worth of the Bible as a prelude to science might be done perhaps by judging the tree by it's fruit. In Europe we refer to the period when the Bible was most influential on the scientific outlook of contemporaries as: the Dark Ages.</p>
<p>The Arabs had to translate the Greek naturalist philosophers and expand on it with their own and borrowed work, before it finally was reintroduced in the 13th century via Spain and southern Italy and a beginning…</p>
<p>Curious..</p>
<p>A naive evaluation of the worth of the Bible as a prelude to science might be done perhaps by judging the tree by it's fruit. In Europe we refer to the period when the Bible was most influential on the scientific outlook of contemporaries as: the Dark Ages.</p>
<p>The Arabs had to translate the Greek naturalist philosophers and expand on it with their own and borrowed work, before it finally was reintroduced in the 13th century via Spain and southern Italy and a beginning could be made to finally end that devastating necessary Biblical prelude to science.</p>
<p>Also I think reading a lot of modern science into the first sentence of Genesis is completely baseless. It does not say heaven was created first because it mentions that word first and it certainly does not convey a rudimentary understanding of the Copernican principle. Only first in sentence 14 stars are created. It is indeed not a science book.</p> "Sometimes I have a terrible…tag:www.thinkatheist.com,2012-01-26:1982180:Comment:10360772012-01-26T20:51:27.288ZBrad Snowderhttp://www.thinkatheist.com/profile/BradSnowder
<p><font face="arial" color="#000060">"Sometimes I have a terrible need of, shall I say the word, religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars." ~ Vincent Van Gogh</font></p>
<p><font face="arial" color="#000060">"Sometimes I have a terrible need of, shall I say the word, religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars." ~ Vincent Van Gogh</font></p>